At my current job I just asked a coworker in chat if the reply was his or LLM. He quickly owned up and the incidence of brokered LLM messages in chat dropped signficantly.

Unfortunately people are being encouraged to use LLM in docs, emails, and presentations so it's probably a losing battle.

I've been thinking about these kind of interactions a lot lately. I don't know what it says about human communication patterns but I'm not super excited about it.

I've been guilty of acting as a middleman for review comments from difficult coworkers. I farm out my interaction to avoid the confrontation, mental exhaustion, and to avoid negative feelings I got from those reviews. I don't mean 'my work is being challenged', I mean people who: delay, nitpick, blow up architecture after not participating in design, assert false info as truth and require you prove them wrong, require 10x evidence of everyone else. Not people who are like 'Hey, I don't understand this code can you add some comments or lets hop in a room for review'

I've also been on the receiving end. I like to think I'm NOT one of these toxic reviewers.

Now, we have Business Owners and Managers who are now even further away from engineers. Important meetings have 0 engineers in them ( a couple people who think they're engineers because they were for 5 years in the 80s ). Output is an AI generated transcript that gets copy/pasted into copilot to generate jira tasks by the Product Owner.

It seems like we (humans) really don't like working with other people. Or, maybe we like working with people who can advance our careers and want to automate interaction with people who cant?

I think this effort by Business Owners to set up an AI wall may be the closest I've seen to 'digital classism' (maybe there is a better term for it?).

Would you be OK with someone looking up the answer on the internet?

I did a similar thing and I got reported to HR.

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devils advocate; why didnt you ask claude then? stop wasting people's time when you could get your own answers.